Johnny T Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Hi all, I have a Cave platform on my set up that has lots of random files in there. I've looked in the Cave folder and I'm not sure which files are the ROMs that I need to import to get rid of all the random files that have appeared? My LB looks like this... If I know what the file extension I need is I can delete all the files and then re-import just those file extensions and hopefully end up with a system with all the box art etc all there? Can anyone give me any pointers? The games that do have box art run fine in MAME so that bit is working well. Thanks for any help you can give me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Did you import unzipped files? All those odd names are file contents for roms. For example a04802w046 is a file contained in the espgal.zip file for Espgaluda game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny T Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 Hi Retro Yep mine are all unzipped ? Will have a look around to see if I can find out what files go together and try and make them in to zips. Thanks for your help ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 What are you trying to do ? Why wouldn't you just download the roms in their already zipped state and use them ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Agreed. Not sure where you got unzipped files for Mame roms from but I would just find a full Mame set and download it. I would not even try to mess with zipping those into the correct rom builds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny T Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 3 hours ago, Lordmonkus said: What are you trying to do ? Why wouldn't you just download the roms in their already zipped state and use them ? I downloaded a load of different sets of ROMs and the ones in the "Cave" folder came like this. Can I just extract them from MAME set of ROMs then? (If so, how, is there a list of Cave ROMs that I can search through and extract from my MAME 0.201 set? Thanks ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 The cave games are part of the MAME romset so if you have a full MAME romset then they will be automatically imported into Launchbox and will be added to a playlist. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny T Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 Thanks Neil. Is there a way that you know of to retrospectively go back and ask LB to create Cave from my romset? Or, alternatively, is there a list somewhere of the games that LB extracts to create the Cave platform so I can go and extract those ROMs myself? I'll have a dig through the xmls tonight but I'm stuck at work at the moment so wondered if there was a quick way to do it? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 If you used the fullset importer to import your fullset, then just go to Tools/create missing arcade playlists. By default they will be listed under Playlists in the dropdown menu in the left sidebar, you can right click and playlist and go to edit, and have it show up in the platform or platform category list if you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 12 minutes ago, Johnny T said: Thanks Neil. Is there a way that you know of to retrospectively go back and ask LB to create Cave from my romset? Or, alternatively, is there a list somewhere of the games that LB extracts to create the Cave platform so I can go and extract those ROMs myself? I'll have a dig through the xmls tonight but I'm stuck at work at the moment so wondered if there was a quick way to do it? Cheers If you do not do the process @neil9000 is mentioning then I think I have a batch file you can use. You just drop it in the mame roms folder and it will copy out the Cave games into a separate folder. It will not delete them from the main romset but copy them so you can move those to import. I will check later when home. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny T Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 That's brilliant Retro. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 You should be able to drop this in your mame roms folder and just double click it. All it does is copy the games related to Cave to a folder called Cave so you do not have to hunt manually. Keep in mind it is all versions of the rom and there are a couple of games that do not work. You can right click and edit it to see what is in it. I did not make it. I think I got it off an Rpi forum. Cave.bat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny T Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 36 minutes ago, Retro808 said: You should be able to drop this in your mame roms folder and just double click it. All it does is copy the games related to Cave to a folder called Cave so you do not have to hunt manually. Keep in mind it is all versions of the rom and there are a couple of games that do not work. You can right click and edit it to see what is in it. I did not make it. I think I got it off an Rpi forum. Cave.bat Hi Retro... you are an absolute DIAMOND!!! That worked a treat!!! Thank you for doing that. There's quite a few games so I'm glad I didn't have to hunt them out by hand. Thanks again for all your help, it's very much appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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